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the head of the operations branch in the kirya. I listened rather

…himself. In obvious distress after the war, he was reassigned as an operational officer in military intelligence in the kirya. He was still at his desk when Fatah terrorists landed on Tel Aviv’s seafront a little before midnight on March 4, 1975. They were spotted by a police pa...

…but couldn’t get a signal. I ran toward a slightly higher area a few dozen yards away and managed to get through to the kirya. I issued orders for the nearby training base in Tze’elim and an air force near Beersheva to dispatch helicopters to treat and evacuate the wounded. We h...

/ BARAK / 146 make to our getting there would no longer be on the battlefield, in the kirya or around the cabinet table. As a number of reporters pointed out, when I made the announcement I was relaxed. I looked content, and I was smiling. 432 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011903

… with us as well. So was Moshe Levy, the deputy chief-of-staff, and Uri Saguy, the head of the operations branch in the kirya. I listened rather than spoke. All I could gather from the other generals’ conversation was that they were trying to figure out how to handle the Palestin...

…orcade attack, I felt a young sayeret officer tap me on the shoulder. Kuti had phoned to say I was to go see him at the kirya. “He said immediately,” the officer added, “and not to discuss it with anyone. Just to tell Dan Shomron that you’ve been taken out of the operation.” To...

…resort of Eilat when things suddenly began to move. At around noon on Saturday, I got a call from Talik’s deputy in the kirya. “Ehud,” he said, “we need you back here as soon as possible.” When I asked why, he said: “You remember how you were approached by someone with some quest...

…on, force balance and funding for the Israeli military. A few weeks later, Arik offered me a promotion: a return to the kirya, as a two- star general, to become head of planning for the armed forces. I don’t know why he chose me: the Sinai exercise perhaps, the fact he knew I'd...

…built a solid relationship, based on mutual respect, and it would deepen further when I moved on to a wider role in the kirya a few years later. They were straight talkers. While resolute about decisions once they’d taken them, they were genuinely open to discussion and debate. I...

…f training a small force of Israeli soldiers to go on cross-border intelligence missions. The initial response from the kirya — military headquarters in Tel Aviv — was so frustrating that anyone else would have given up. None of the generals saw any reason to believe his scheme w...

…back if he saw that he was putting Israel’s security at risk. On Sunday evening, Peres called a cabinet meeting in the kirya. He said our task was to continue what Rabin had begun, and that at least for now he would fill Rabin’s shoes not just as Prime Minister but Defense Minis...

…ut a single mission, and there was no sign of that happening. Avraham couldn’t be sure when, or if, the generals in the kirya might give him 58 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011529

…aged in launching the invasion, became suddenly, irretrievably, irrelevant. I was at my desk on the third floor of the kirya, getting ready to go home, when the news broke: a huge bomb had exploded at the Phalangist Party headquarters in east Beirut as Gemayel was beginning to a...

… all the way to Beirut. This wasn’t mere supposition on my part. In February 1982, we ran a simulation exercise in the kirya based on Plan B. The result: Little Pines became Big Pines. A clash with the Syrians proved inevitable, if only because one target even under Little Pines...

…ut a single mission, and there was no sign of that happening. Avraham couldn’t be sure when, or if, the generals in the kirya might give him 58 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027906